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Harvard endeavors to present to her students a wide field of opportunity, to teach them not facts or formulas, but to endow them with the power to think for themselves, to enable them to discriminate between that which is essential and that which is non-essential, and to reach independent judgments. Justice Holmes has said that education "is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live...
...friction tape for splices. So sincere, so acquisitive is the admiration of Author Ford for his great & good old friend that he has transplanted to Dearborn the entire early laboratory plants of Fort Myers, Fla. and Menlo Park, N. J., the latter complete to the local boarding house, to teach "boys and girls something of the spirit which made this country." There is a Fordian enthusiasm for that spirit evident throughout the book, which is as simple as the author's automobile, and with the aid of Publicist Samuel Crowther made to run as smoothly...
...church deprived him of his ecclesiastical functions because he was a Pansenist.* The Abbé developed his sign system in order to teach his two deaf sisters to communicate. His finger alphabet is still in use. Eugene E. Hannan, deaf sculptor of the Buffalo statue, reproduced the Epée alphabet on to the statue's base. Modeling the expressive fists was the hardest part of his work, said he last week. The statue itself represents the Abbe studying his clenched right hand for its possibilities in signs...
...golfer, making his shots. George Sargent, onetime P. G. A. president, superintended the photographing. He said that pictures would also be taken of England's Joyce Wethered, foremost female stylist, and 'of graceful old Harry Vardon. The pictures will be distributed to P. G. A. members to teach them how to teach...
...Robert Gregg decided that the existing methods of shorthand writing were too complicated. He invented and for five years taught a system of his own. Later in Boston, later in Chicago he established schools, disseminated his tachygraphic doctrine, prospered. Of the 7,124 U. S. cities whose public schools teach shorthand, 98% now use the Gregg system...